pedz@bobkat.UUCP (02/23/87)
I was look in the index of the TeXbook and stumbled across an entry
for Bo Derek. Since this is one of my highest priorities, I looked on
the listed page for it (293) but to no avail. I finally look in the
texman.tex file and found that the entry comes between the 10 and the
100 of exercise 26.1. I wonder what Jill thinks of this.
--
Perry Smith
pedz@bobkat
{ti-csl,infotel}!pollux!bobkat!pedzcje@elbereth.UUCP (02/24/87)
In article <626@bobkat.UUCP>, pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing) writes: > I was look in the index of the TeXbook and stumbled across an entry > for Bo Derek. ... I finally ... found that the entry comes between the > 10 and the 100 of exercise 26.1. Congratulations! You are now that much further along in the solution to Exercise 27.5 :-). -- Chris Jarocha-Ernst UUCP: {allegra, seismo, ihnp4}!rutgers!elbereth!cje ARPA: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU
iau@ukc.UUCP (02/25/87)
In article <626@bobkat.UUCP> Pedz Thing writes: >I was look in the index of the TeXbook and stumbled across an entry >for Bo Derek. [ ... ] I finally look in the >texman.tex file and found that the entry comes [ after a ] 10 I noticed this as well, and assumed that it was one of those things that publishers put into books to help spot copyright infingements (originally they were imaginary words in dictionaries?). I'm sure that such things have a name, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. On the other hand, it might just be a joke. It wouldn't be the worst one in the TeXbook by a long way. Ian. iau@ukc.uucp or iau@ukc.ac.uk etc.
miw@mucs.UUCP (02/26/87)
In article <626@bobkat.UUCP>, pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing) writes: > I was look in the index of the TeXbook and stumbled across an entry > for Bo Derek. ... I finally ... found that the entry comes between the > 10 and the 100 of exercise 26.1. Well done! Anyone spot the unusual running head on p.216? Mario -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: miw%uk.ac.man.cs.ux@cs.ucl.ac.uk The University USENET: mcvax!ukc!man.cs.ux!miw Manchester M13 9PL JANET: miw@uk.ac.man.cs.ux U.K. 061-273 7121 x 5699 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ken@rochester.UUCP (02/27/87)
In the METAFONT book, look at the first referenced page for Knuth, Nancy Jill Carter. It should be obvious. Ken
gary@darth.UUCP (02/27/87)
In article <2589@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> iau@ukc.ukc.ac.uk (I.A.Utting) writes: >In article <626@bobkat.UUCP> Pedz Thing writes: >>I was look in the index of the TeXbook and stumbled across an entry >>for Bo Derek. [ ... ] I finally look in the >>texman.tex file and found that the entry comes [ after a ] 10 > >I noticed this as well, and assumed that it was one of those things that >publishers put into books to help spot copyright infingements (originally > [...] On the other hand, fit might just be a joke ... A joke to be sure. If anything, Don Knuth's publisher (Addison-Wesley) gets an A+ for patience. I remember reading an article in some forgotten issue of a science magazine. The article described Don's dissatisfaction with current mathematical typesetting technology. Don decided to write a better typesetting program: the initial estimate was 3 months to completion. Years later, TeX becomes a notable force in computerized typesetting. The article had a great photo of Knuth in what I supposed was his home. He was sitting on the floor, surrounded by large sheets of graph paper with giant glyphs (from cmr fonts, I guess) drawn on them. Sorry for the digression ... the point was that the Bo Derek index entry reminds me that Knuth has an inclination to such things. One of the volumes of "The Art of Computer Programming" (Vol 1, I believe), contains the following two index entries: Circular Reasoning, See Reasoning, Circular Reasoning, Circular See Circular Reasoning Gary J. Wisniewski uucp: {allegra, bellcore, cadre}!pitt!darth!gary
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (03/01/87)
> I noticed this as well, and assumed that it was one of those things that > publishers put into books to help spot copyright infingements (originally > they were imaginary words in dictionaries?). I'm sure that such things have > a name, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. They're called "check entries" or variants on that. Almost anyone doing data compilations -- dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference guides, surveys -- includes them routinely. Their real value is not in spotting copyright infringements, but in proving them in court. When the ripoff artist protests that he got his information the same way you did, i.e. by painstaking research with many sources, you ask him how his painstaking research managed to exactly duplicate a fictitious entry. I doubt very much that it's worth bothering with such things for an ordinary book, whose contents are distinctive enough by themselves. Knuth is just having fun. -- Legalize Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology freedom! {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry